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I reside in Riverdale and people in the neighborhood generally don't shop in the Bronx and instead go to Westchester or to Manhattan since both are close by. There's amble parking in Westchester, and plenty of upscale stores and places to eat instead of one thousand Target stores, TJ Maxx and all of these other cheap stores that are clearly targeting a certain population. The other thing with a lot of these stores in the Bronx is they tend to be rather run down and not well kept. As a result, you don't have many "upscale" neighborhoods in the Bronx for this very reason. People with money are going to want to have somewhere nice to shop and these cheesy malls and low-end retail stores don't cut it.
If they really wanted change in the Bronx, they would stop building the same "shopping malls" with the same low-end retail and the same low-end wage jobs. How many of the same low-end retailers does one borough need? I've been following a number of these Bronx threads and people keep yelling about how the Bronx has to remain "affordable" (whatever that means), but the borough will never shake the stigma that it has unless it is able to draw people here with higher incomes, and these cheesy shopping malls certainly don't help. The borough for the most part isn't known for having good shopping or good places to eat. It's no wonder the place can't shake the stigma that it's carried for years.
There was a time the bronx didnt have much more than bodegas and liquor stores. compared to the severe lack of retail the bronx used to have, stores like target and the like as well as legit supermarkets are not a bad upgrade considering many areas of the Bronx didnt even have that. Shake stigma? Good shopping? it depends on who you ask. Maybe not to someone who lives on 63rd and Park or some annoying hipster transplant from nebraska but to someone who grew up on Vyse Ave or off E 170 St, its certainly an improvement of sorts.
I like the rezoning but the name is friggin retarded. "I'm from Cromwell-Jerome" lol. Jerome sounds too ethnic they should just leave it Cromwell which sounds badass.
I agree. Honestly, Cromwell will fit in well with other Bronx neighborhood names and im really surprised theres not already a neighborhood or a housing project with that name.
THey need to redraw those borders though. Do a more rectangular, triangular pentagonal type shape to outline the neighborhood that way people can clearly see where the neighborhood starts and ends....
I love that part of the Bronx....West Side all day....I am familiar with the area and its surroundings, I had fam that lived in Sedgwick Houses back in the 1980s. That's real Bronx right there, step streets, etc....
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There was a time the bronx didnt have much more than bodegas and liquor stores. compared to the severe lack of retail the bronx used to have, stores like target and the like as well as legit supermarkets are not a bad upgrade considering many areas of the Bronx didnt even have that. Shake stigma? Good shopping? it depends on who you ask. Maybe not to someone who lives on 63rd and Park or some annoying hipster transplant from nebraska but to someone who grew up on Vyse Ave or off E 170 St, its certainly an improvement of sorts.
I'd argue that not much has changed save the big box stores. A neighborhood like Woodlawn for example has character because it has a lot of small businesses and very few box stores. It's the small businesses that help to give each neighborhood character. You get to know the owners and workers of the establishment and they're involved and care about the community more. The other thing that still seems to be lacking is good supermarkets where you can buy fresh produce and good quality ingredients. It seems like the whole natural products and organic products missed the Bronx. What's further interesting is with the amount box stores around the bodegas still seem to be doing just fine.
The bronx just needs better quality small stores. That won't happen until the median income level improves. Poor people don't care about coffee shops, organic food, etc.. Even the liquor store in my neighborhood is crappy. The wine selection is pretty poor there.
I love that part of the Bronx....West Side all day....I am familiar with the area and its surroundings, I had fam that lived in Sedgwick Houses back in the 1980s. That's real Bronx right there, step streets, etc....
West Side!
Love all that. Hilly streets, car repair shops under the Jerome ave EL, Dominican flavor etc
I reside in Riverdale and people in the neighborhood generally don't shop in the Bronx and instead go to Westchester or to Manhattan since both are close by. There's amble parking in Westchester, and plenty of upscale stores and places to eat instead of one thousand Target stores, TJ Maxx and all of these other cheap stores that are clearly targeting a certain population. The other thing with a lot of these stores in the Bronx is they tend to be rather run down and not well kept. As a result, you don't have many "upscale" neighborhoods in the Bronx for this very reason. People with money are going to want to have somewhere nice to shop and these cheesy malls and low-end retail stores don't cut it.
Very true. People in Westchester will damn near skin you alive if you even equate them with the Bronx. New Rochelle is very clean and well kept.
Like this area in Brooklyn is now being called PLG instead of East Flatbush.
No.
PLG is to Flatbush what Stuyvesant Heights is to Bed-Stuy.
Both PLG and Stuyvesant Heights are still apart of Flatbush and Bed-Stuy, respectively. However, before Brooklyn became "The City of Brooklyn" these areas were their own entities/neighborhoods.
In short when everything consolidated later on smaller areas became apart of the lager ones.
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